Analysing films

  Anand completes 50 years since it was released and what a journey this gem has taken. Over the years the film has only gone onto strengthen itself in a classic category. Hrishikesh Mukherjee was always known to produce small budget meaningful cinema. And a person who starts with editing as a career profession and then moving to directing, he understood his frames and his cinema so well. While working on Do Bigha Zameen (A Bimal Roy classic) his editing skills are amazing treat. The opening sequence of the rains and everybody dancing (Later copied in Lagaan too) has some great frames to watch in Black and White. Do Bigha Zameen along side some terrific acting and plot is a visual treat and it is amazing editing that Hrishida brings on the table (watch the Rickshaw race scene to know more of that). Anand works for some terrific acting, an easy narration and a plot which is so well diffused in the time when as a nation we were looking for hope. The post partition trauma, widespread ...

For the generation who has grown on Rajesh Khanna, this must be the saddest moment and day of his life. The first true Super Star of India, passes away a tad and uncharacteristic of him. Unfortunate and unedifying. The legacy of a man, who has left a repertoire of work like Aradhana, Amar Prem, Anand, Kati Patang... the list is endless. Each film epitomises his status as the true romantic hero. He best epitomises what cinema stood for. "Sheer entertainment". He was also a man of contrast. He died a lonely death and a very lonely death. Indeed for a man, whose fans lined up for him, kissed his car, wrote letters in blood, tore his shirt, this must have been a lonely death. As we all come together on this saddened day, are fans so merciless or ruthless or deceptive? Then why does Rajesh Khanna say, "Babumoshai, Mere fans mujhse koi chin nahin sakta". That is the irony of the situation or probably an oxymoron! Khanna's body of work spoke about Khanna an...